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genealogy-research (Claude Skill) — Installer & Démo en direct

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Fonctionnalités clés

GPS evidence levels: Proven / Probable / Possible / Unproven
80+ database references across 15+ countries
Region-specific naming convention guides (Slavic, Germanic, Romance, Scandinavian)
Obsidian templates for People, Places, Documents, process tracking
Handles multi-language document analysis including handwritten scans

Démo en direct

Aperçu en pratique

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Installation

Dépôt de l’auteur · Documentation officielle des Skills Claude

Cas d'usage

Usages concrets : genealogy-research

Analyze a 19th-century parish record scan

👤 Family historians working through European parish books ⏱ ~45 min intermediate

Quand l'utiliser : You have a scan in Latin / Cyrillic / German script and can't parse it alone.

Déroulement

Share the scan

Using the genealogy-research skill — here's a parish record from 1847 Galicia. Transcribe and interpret.✓ Copié

→ Line-by-line transcription with language notes, not guesswork
Record in the vault

Create an Obsidian note for this document using the Document template. Link to the People and Places.✓ Copié

→ New note with proper frontmatter and cross-links
Plan follow-ups

What are the GPS-recommended next searches to corroborate this record?✓ Copié

→ Specific databases + search parameters, not generic 'search ancestry.com'

Résultat : A documented artifact with evidence level + a research plan.

Pièges

Claude transliterates Slavic names inconsistently across notes — Pick a convention (the skill offers standard ones) and tell it to stick with that convention

Combiner avec : filesystem

Document a negative search properly (a GPS requirement)

👤 Researchers past the beginner stage ⏱ ~15 min intermediate

Quand l'utiliser : You couldn't find a record and need to note it correctly so future-you remembers.

Déroulement

Record the search

genealogy-research — document a negative search: Łódź State Archive, 1898-1902 birth records, surname Kowalski. Couldn't find.✓ Copié

→ Structured negative-search note per GPS standards
Suggest alternatives

What other record types could fill this gap?✓ Copié

→ Specific alternatives (civil vs church, neighboring parishes, censuses)

Résultat : A proper negative-search record that makes your evidence base actually GPS-compliant.

Combinaisons

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genealogy-research-skill + filesystem

Save and cross-link notes directly into your Obsidian vault

Create the People note for Anna Kowalski and save to ~/genealogy/People/.✓ Copié

genealogy-research-skill + planning-with-files

Multi-year research projects — keep findings.md and progress.md across sessions

Use planning-with-files to track the Galicia line research across months.✓ Copié

Outils

Ce que ce MCP expose

Outil	Entrées	Quand appeler
transcribe_document	scan + language hint	New historical document lands in your vault
plan_search	research question + known facts	Before starting a new line of research
record_negative_search	what you looked for + where + when	Every failed search worth remembering
obsidian_template_apply	person / place / document + details	Adding an entity to your vault

Coût et limites

Coût d'exécution

Quota d'API: None from the skill
Tokens par appel: Transcription of scans can be large
Monétaire: Free — skills are local files. External databases may have their own fees.
Astuce: Feed Claude one scan at a time; batch transcription gets muddled across records.

Sécurité

Permissions, secrets, portée

Stockage des identifiants : No credentials — pure prompts

Sortie de données : None from the skill. Your scans and notes stay local.

Living-person data is sensitive — don't upload scans of people still alive without consent.

Dépannage

Erreurs courantes et correctifs

Wrong trigger keywords — no template applied to Obsidian note

Ask for 'the Document template' or 'the People template' by name.

Alternatives

genealogy-research vs autres

Alternative	Quand l'utiliser	Compromis
FamilySearch / Ancestry tools	You want commercial database access with auto-matching	Paid; less flexible; no Obsidian integration
Vanilla Claude	One-off transcription with no method framing	No GPS discipline; inconsistent naming across sessions

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Ressources

📖 Lire le README officiel sur GitHub

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